After Yang Cheng announced the building plan, it was obvious that it was effective.
Everyone's enthusiasm was fuller and more exciting than before.
Everyone couldn't wait to start working.
Yang Cheng doesn't have to worry about the new tribesman who is responsible for cutting stones, just let Ying and Tao, the two beast-eared girls, watch.
Building a house is a major event for the tribe. In order to control the overall situation, Yang Cheng specially regarded his witches as assistants.
When making the stone model, Yang Cheng asked two rabbit-eared girls, Ying and Tao, to study beside him. With the two of them watching the tribesmen polishing the stone, Yang Cheng felt more at ease.
Yang Cheng did another thing, which was to lay down the baseline.
Thanks to primitive people's insensitivity to numerical values, they could clearly see the construction plans on the animal skins, but they were confused about how to build them.
This place still needs Yang Cheng to do it himself.
Yang Cheng was somewhat thankful that when he was building the fence before, he deliberately encircled the open space a little larger.
Therefore, these seven or eight large houses occupy less than 10% of the open space of the Qingque tribe.
Yang Cheng held the building plan in his hand, followed by Hongya, who was holding a bunch of things in his arms.
There are two types of things, one is the whittled wooden stick, and the other is the rope made from vine fibers and kneaded together.
Yang Cheng began to insert wooden sticks on the ground according to the position he had budgeted before, inserting a wooden stick with each step he took.
Connect the sticks together with rope and then divide them into two rows to make two ground lines.
In the middle of the foundation line is the foundation to be excavated.
In order to ensure that the stick was inserted into the ground in a straight line, Yang Cheng specially took a long stick and asked Yan Lin and Xing to follow him for a while, then place the long stick in the middle of the two ground lines. Adjust the straightness of the base line by looking at where it is narrow and where it is wide.
This work requires patience and meticulousness, and must not be sloppy.
Yang Cheng spent the entire morning marking the foundation lines.
During this period, the tribesmen who were waiting to excavate the foundation were not idle. They were already excavating the first foundation line drawn by Yang Cheng.
And in order to once again ensure that the depth and width of the excavation were consistent, Yang Cheng also gave them sticks of the same length.
There are several white endpoints carved on these sticks, which are the "rulers" initially invented by Yang Cheng.
Before these primitive people fully learned writing and Arabic numerals, Yang Cheng could only make simple "rulers" for them.
However, considering the future development of the tribe, Yang Cheng thought that after the house construction was completed, the specific weights and measures would be stipulated.
After digging the foundation line, Yang Cheng found a tree nearby to sit on and take a rest.
"Hey yo, hey yo!"
"One two, one two, one two three, work harder!"
In the distance, the tribesmen of the Qingque tribe were having sex in full swing.
They shouted slogans and were naked to the waist. The heat on their bodies quickly emitted white steam when it hit the falling snow in the winter.
Yang Cheng was not worried that the totem warriors would catch a cold due to sweating in this weather.
After many experiments, it has been proven that the totem warriors are physically strong and protected by the power of the totem. They can even wear thin clothes in the winter.
Even those ordinary people who do not have the power of totems can withstand the cold even if they have enough food and clothes to wear.
Instead of worrying that they will catch a cold after working, it is better to worry about yourself. After resting here for a long time, you will be blown by the cold wind and catch a cold.
Listening to the chants in the distance, watching the scene of everyone having sex in full swing.
Yang Cheng's thoughts were a little wandering.
He seemed to have seen the stone houses rising from the ground in front of him, with hard walls, bright and clean spaces, and row upon row of tiles...
Wait, Yang Cheng suddenly realized something.
Damn it, why did you forget about the roof? !
The roof of a stone house must not be made of stone.
In that case, no matter how many support pillars are used, it will not be able to support it!
Yang Cheng had never considered this issue before, and simply subconsciously thought that straw and thatch would be enough.
Now a flash comes to mind.
Suddenly I felt that it was not feasible to use straw or thatch for the roof.
Regardless of the windy and rainy weather, just one thing is that the Qingque tribe is now in a primeval forest, not in the wilderness, and there is not so much straw and thatch nearby.
The next one is wooden boards, which can be used as roofs.
But this encountered the problem of making rafts before. The Qingque tribe did not have tools. It was difficult to make a flat plank just by relying on the stone and wooden tools everyone had.
And even if you get it out, it will be difficult to fix it to the roof.
Because there are no nails!
Nails, whether made of wood or stone, are very difficult.
The only thing that can achieve the effect Yang Cheng wants is to use minerals like iron and copper.
"After the heavy snow passes and the weather warms up, I will go to the Stone Tribe as soon as possible to get the ore and make iron tools!"
Yang Cheng muttered a few words to himself.
Since neither grass nor wood can be used to make a roof, it can only be the tiles that Yang Cheng thought of just now.
Tiles are the wisdom left by our ancestors. They are built like fish scales, which can prevent rain and wind, and are strong and durable.
Even if it is damaged, just replace the damaged tiles with new ones instead of discarding them all.
When Yang Cheng lived in the countryside as a child, his favorite thing was rainy days.
On a rainy day, sleeping in bed and listening to the crisp sound of raindrops falling on the tiles gives you a unique feeling of purity, as if your soul is ethereal with the sound of falling rain.
When I got up, I sat at the gate and watched the rainwater collect from the gaps in the tiles and fall into curtains of water. It was another feeling.
You can watch it all day long without getting tired of it.
He did what he thought of, and Yang Cheng asked everyone to continue working where they were, and went straight to the newly built earthen kiln.
At the earthen kiln.
Lulu was squatting on the ground playing with the mud. The other beast-eared girls didn't have Lulu's patience. It was okay to let them play with the mud for a while. If they had to deal with the mud all day long, they would definitely not be able to bear the loneliness.
So after helping Lulu successfully build the earth kiln, the beast-ear girls all left to help Yang Cheng do other things.
Lulu looked very focused and was squeezing a big thing. From the appearance, it seemed to be the big vat that Yang Cheng had told her to make before. She didn't even hear Yang Cheng's footsteps on the snow as he walked over.
Yang Cheng didn't interrupt and waited quietly for Lulu to knead the adobe in the vat.
"call--"
After kneading the adobe, Lulu took a deep breath and stood up. Only then did she realize that a figure was standing next to her unknowingly.
"ah!"
Lulu exclaimed, startled, and then came back to her senses after seeing Yang Cheng.
"Wu, you came and didn't even tell me. You scared me."
Lulu said coquettishly and patted her chest at the same time, causing a wave of waves.
Well, after constantly eating the meat of ferocious beasts for so long, Lulu has become an eighth-grade totem warrior, and her height and figure have grown a lot.
Only then did Yang Cheng realize that Lulu was already a big girl.
"Ahem."
Yang Cheng coughed twice and tried to move his eyes away. Then he saw Lulu's cold-red hands and frowned slightly.
"Lulu, you don't need to be too anxious. The tribe has enough pottery now, so there is no need for you to be too anxious to replenish the pottery." Yang Cheng said.
"It's okay, Wu." Lulu shook her head, rubbed her hands vigorously, and said, "I am a totem warrior. This coldness is nothing to me. What matters more is what Wu told me."
Yang Cheng was a little touched by this big girl and didn't know how to say good things to her.
"Okay, Lulu, put this big vat of adobe aside first." Yang Cheng gestured with his hands and said, "I have something here called a tile. See if you can burn it for me first." .”
"Tiles?"
Lulu was a little confused, and then based on what Yang Cheng said, she quickly took out a piece of mud and put it into the earthen kiln to burn it.
Because the tiles are very small and are not used to hold things like pottery, they have various structures. The tiles are just a flat surface.
Therefore, within an hour, Lulu took out the fired tiles.
"Witch, it's done burning."
Lulu used two wooden sticks to reach into the earthen kiln and pinch out the tiles.
"Is it burned?"
Yang Cheng hurried over to check.
When he saw the fired tiles, Yang Cheng frowned and felt something was wrong.
The fired pottery piece in front of me is not a tile at all, it is just a straight board.
Not to mention there is no curvature, the overall shape is very standard, just a rectangle.
"This is wrong, the tiles in my memory are not like this." Yang Cheng muttered to himself.
Yang Cheng tried hard to recall his memory, and finally remembered the differences between the tiles in his hand and the tiles in his memory.
"Yes, the tiles used to build houses in the countryside are larger at one end and smaller at the other. This is to stack the tiles together without leaving any gaps."
Yang Cheng knew where there was a problem.
The tiles in his hand were all the same straight shape and had no shape.
A real tile is an isosceles trapezoid with one end larger and one smaller. If the two ends are the same size, then there will be gaps when the tiles are stacked together. In the event of a thunderstorm, it will not be able to block the rain at all.
So the problem to be solved now is to uniformly define the shape of the tiles and make them into an isosceles trapezoid with one end larger and one smaller.
The solution to this problem is also very simple.
Just like how Yang Cheng made several stones for reference and polishing for the clansmen before, he can make a mold first.
At this time, Lulu saw Yang Cheng holding the tiles she had made, frowning and muttering to herself, thinking something was wrong.
There was worry on Lu Er Niang's face, and she asked: "Wu, is there something wrong with this tile? Is there something wrong with the way I made it?"
"No, you did a great job, you just need something to make again."
Yang Cheng smiled and comforted Lulu, and said, "Wait for me here while I go find a few things."
"good."
Lulu nodded obediently, and then watched Yang Cheng walk away.
